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/broken-out/copying-unaligned-data-across-user-kernel-boundary.patch

From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
32 bit compatibility code sometimes needs to copy unaligned data across
kernel/user boundary and currently there is no architecture independent API to
do it.
(1) Introduce new APIs __{get,put}_user_unaligned. These APIs are
necessary because the optimal way to copy unaligned data across
kernel/user boundary is different on different architectu
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